Abstract

Vincent Giraud undertakes to introduce the thought of the author of Broken Hegemonies by taking as guiding thread the phenomenon. Schürmann’s procedure follows the imperative by which Greek science defined its specific task: ‘To save the phenomena.’ If that which manifests itself is always originarily a singular, which the different ‘hegemonic fantasms’ force to become in its appearing a particular case of their own law—then, the retrieval of the phenomena will be brought about by an epic of the singular, which alone is capable of establishing us in the ‘tragic condition’ that forms the basis of our relation to appearing.